Volere encompasses the discovery, communication and management of requirements for any type of system—software, hardware, commodities, services, organizational, or anything else you are developing. Volere works with all development methods—sequential, agile, outsourcing, etc—and with most requirements tools and modeling techniques. Volere requirements techniques are based on experience from worldwide business analysis projects, and are continually improved with input from our users.

Suzanne Robertson’s interview on the I.T. Career Energizer podcast. It is live in iTunes, Stitcher Radio and other podcast streaming services. iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/i-t-career-energizer/id1231387865 — Stitcher Link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/phil-burgess/it-career-energizer — Show Notes: www.itcareerenergizer.com/e43

Today I listened to Adrian Reed’s excellent talk on Systems Thinking at the BA Summit organised by Penny Pullan. http://basummit.com Early in the talk Adrian made the point that Systems Thinking is all about interfaces/connections; the pieces are useless if you don’t know how they fit together. Of course this relates to all of the pieces: the sociological, the information and the technology. I was reminded of one of the patterns in our book